Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> writes:

> According to the comments, we need to test if this is
> the first throttled task, however, list_empty() tests on
> the entry cfs_rq->throttled_list, not the head, this is wrong.
>
> This is a bug because we don't re-init the list entry after
> removing it from the list, so list_empty() could return false
> even if the list is really empty.
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cw...@twopensource.com>

Agreed.
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bseg...@google.com>

> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40a7fcb..ee91917 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -3683,7 +3683,7 @@ static void throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>       cfs_rq->throttled = 1;
>       cfs_rq->throttled_clock = rq_clock(rq);
>       raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> -     empty = list_empty(&cfs_rq->throttled_list);
> +     empty = list_empty(&cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
>  
>       /*
>        * Add to the _head_ of the list, so that an already-started


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